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Accum, [Friedrich Christian]; Fredrick Accum, Operative Chemist..

A Treatise on the Art of Making Good and Wholesome Bread of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and other farinaceous grain: exhibiting the alimentary properties and chemical constitution of different kinds of bread corn, and of the various substitutes used for bread, in different parts of the world.

London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 7, Ludgate Hill, by C. Green, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, 1821. Tall duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), [vi], 160, xxiii, [1] pages. Title page with hand-colored engraved illustration of a brick oven. Advertisements at rear for other works by the author. Bibliographical references. Twelve pages of reviews of Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food, inserted at end. FIRST EDITION. One of two 1821 editions with.....

Price: $350.00

[Conventry Grange, No. 75 (Coventry, Conn.); Ladies of the Grange]

Coventry Grange Cook Book. Compiled by the Ladies of Coventry Grange Fair, No. 75, P. of H.

Coventry, Conn. [The Grange], 1916. Small octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 31 pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Evident FIRST EDITION. A fair-related cookbook with one hundred fifty attributed recipes. Entries meriting a look: Rye Muffins, Brambles, Summer Squash Pie, Elderberry Pie, Apple Sweet Pickles, Beet Jelly. ~ Coventry nestles near the banks of Lake Wangumbang, in the north-central county of Tolland, some forty miles due east of.....

Price: $150.00

Daisy Eyebright; Williams, Henry T.; Johnson, S. O. [Sophia Orne]

Household Hints and Recipes.

Boston: Peoples Publishing Company, 1877. Octavo, 156, [4] pages. Ads. First edition. An interesting collection of household recipes, for "every department of the house beyond the kitchen", with helpful advice such as: "To Make a Walking Stick" and "How to Know if Wine is Coloured". Darkening to edges of text block; some wear to head and foot of spine. Otherwise very good in publisher's gilt- and black- decorated brown cloth.....

Price: $90.00

de Pomiane, Edouard

Recettes de Grande Cuisine, par le Gastronome Dr. de Pomiane.

N.p. Liebig; Maron-Esperonnier, Imp. [circa 1950s]. Small, accordion fold booklet (13.5 x 11 cm.), [8] pages. Text in Italian. Promotional booklet for the Liebig company's various bottled sauces, including Sauce Madere, Sauce Perigueux, Sauce Chasseur, Sauce Americaine, and Sauce Italienne. The booklet includes twenty-six recipes, attributed here to the famous medical doctor and gastronome Edouard de Pomiane, pseudonym of Édouard Pozerski. The little booklet is printed by the lithographers, Maron-Esperonnier.....

Price: $50.00

Isola, Antonia [pseudonym of Mabel Earl McGinnis]

Simple Italian Cookery.

New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1912. Small octavo (17.3 x 11.5 cm.), 68, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook of Italian recipes published in the United States, with one hundred thirty recipes, including soups, pastas, sauces, salads and deserts. The author had spent some time in Rome, but not enough to adopt the Italian name given her by the publisher. For this work, Mable Earl McGinnis (born May.....

Price: $90.00

Lindgren, Don & Mark Germer

UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place. Volume 1, Alabama – District of Columbia.

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....

Price: $50.00

[Mother Goose – Maine Creamery Co. (Providence, R.I.)].

Ice Cream Rhymes of Mother Goose.

Providence, R.I. Maine Creamery Co. Ice Cream, [circa 1915]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.7 x 8 cm.), [12] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated throughout, in four-color spot printing on newsprint. An advertising pamphlet with popular nursery rhymes rewritten to promote ice cream. Evidently published for hire by various ice cream producers, which including this one, the Maine Creamery Co., of Providence, R.I. There are institutional holdings of this book issued by.....

Price: $90.00

Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

Haybox Cookery.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1943. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 80 pages. Index. Second edition.Complete text of the first edition, with headings and chapter separations redesigned, now condensed to 80 pages from 108, and printed on much thinner paper, clear evidence of the wartime conservation of materials. In mustard publisher's cloth with green lettering. Very slight foxing on flyleaves and fore-edges; pages bright. Near fine. In near very.....

Price: $90.00

[Wilcox, Estelle Woods]

Practical Housekeeping : a Careful Compilation of Tried and Approved Recipes. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Thousand.

Minneapolis, Minn. Buckeye Publishing Company, 1886. Thick octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 688 pages. Index. Illustrated with in-text engravings throughout and frontispiece. Publisher’s advertisements. All edges red. "Two hundred thousandth". The copyright page indicates that this "book is a revised and enlarged edition of Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping." In its origins a community cookbook, as well as a voluminous housekeeping reference, with a convoluted bibliographic history. The stirrings of.....

Price: $200.00